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Growing old gracefully. |
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Coast Road cottages at high tide. |
Horse Chestnuts in Empress |
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Evening light over the Anchorage |
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View over Feldy Marsh from St Botolph's Cottages The Lane spring |
| Beach Road leading down to the sea with "The Boathouse" in the distance This house has since been demolished and rebuilt in similar style |
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Cottages at The Nothe (The North) in winter One of the oldest parts of Mersea situated at the far western end of the island on a footpath heading north towards The Strood This location used to be a Coopers yard (for making barrells) and was once called "Coopers Quay" The cottages are reputedly made of ships timberwreck |
East Road looking west showing the kitchen garden wall of Brierly Hall Brierly is a listed building circa 1800 it was once called Leakeys Hall |
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winter snow Mersea Beach |
spring at Peartree Cottages East Road These cottages are listed circa 1741 |
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cottage garden in Mersea an entry in the Mersea in Bloom "Best Front Gardens" contest |
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Hollyhocks - Mersea Hollyhocks thrive in the sheltered warmth of The Lane |
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Top of Monkey Steps Coast Road |
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How not to attempt to cross The Strood at High Tide |
| St Botolph's Cottages overlooking Feldy off The Lane |
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Primrose Cottage The Square Coast Road |
| Flora who sits in the Sensory Garden Barfield Road |
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Cherry blossom in Churchfields |
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Front wall of
cottages known as The Square Coast Road |
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Little Egret and Curlew Sandpiper |
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| Cormorants |
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| Oystercatchers |
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Brent Geese migrate to the estuary in autumn |
| Dabchick or Little Grebe |
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Mersea from the air showing the far west of the island |
| Mersea from the air The Strood divides to east and west standing out clearly the two Fishing lakes on Wellhouse Hill |
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A Mersea Cottage in The Square |
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Dabchicks sailing Cadets setting off for Salcott Creek |
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yet another Mersea sunset |
| Bocking Hall one of the oldest farms on Mersea originally a "manor" of mersea in its own right |
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grey seals can sometimes be seen in the Pyefleet |
| Firs Chase |
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the working harbour at Mersea |
| The gardens of The Square - Coast Road showing the "other side" of the Barometer |
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| dabchicks sailing club |
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Smacks off Heybridge Lock lining up for a race round Osea Island |
| beach cabins at Seaview |
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upside down boats |
Fishing Smack "Mermaid" pictured below The Dredging Match 2011 |
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Dredging for oysters |
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jetty off "The Firs" caravan site |
Mersea allotments East Road |
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| oysters to go |
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wind turbines |
| windsurfers |
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